The presidency of Dina Boluarte began with her inauguration as the president of Peru on 7 December 2022, immediately following the removal of Pedro Castillo from office in the aftermath of his attempted self-coup. On 10 October 2025, Boluarte was impeached by Congress.
Background The formation of this government came three days after the investiture of Dina Boluarte as President of the Republic after the attempted self-coup by Pedro Castillo that occurred the same morning. From her speech as the new president, she declared "to ask for a political truce to install a government of national unity"..
History First negotiations As of 8 December, President Dina Boluarte announced that she will meet with all the parliamentary groups, being herself a president without a label, and therefore without any party or group supporting her continuously in Congress to form a political government..
Nevertheless, it meets most of the parliamentary groups of the center and the right, in particular Popular Force, Go on Country, Popular Renewal, Popular Action, Integrity and Development and the left group of Together for Peru..
According to deputies from Free Peru, President Dina Boluarte offered her former party a place in the government, which the parliamentarians refused.. A few hours later, party leader Vladimir Cerrón confirmed that the party refuses to join the government and refuses the convocation of the group by the president, it is the only group that refused the invitation, demonstrating the still continuous support for Pedro Castillo and destroyed relations with Boluarte..
All the parliamentary groups, and especially the center and the right, announce that they will not join the government,. all preferring a technical government of national unity, and especially on the left, demanding the calling of a snap general election..
Pro-Castillo protests Nevertheless, the parliamentary groups agree on the need to quickly appoint a unity government, in an attempt to calm the protests in the street. Because from the appointment of Dina Boluarte, about a thousand people marched in Lima towards the Congress..
Other demonstrators also blocked the Panamericana highway the same day with rocks, logs, and burning tires to demand general elections and the closure of Congress, as Pedro Castillo wanted.
In Ica, several dozen demonstrators paralyzed the transport of passengers and freight vehicles. In Arequipa, a thousand kilometers south of Lima, there were also blockages on the Panamericana Sur highway.
Street mobilizations were also reported in other parts of the interior of Peru such as Chota (Cajamarca, birthplace of Castillo), Trujillo, Puno, Ayacucho, Huancavelica and Moquegua.
Cabinets of the Boluarte presidency
Angulo cabinet
On 10 December 2022, President Dina Boluarte appointed Pedro Angulo Arana to be her first President of the Council of Ministers. Angulo held the office until a cabinet reshuffle on 21 December 2022, leaving office after just eleven days.
First rumors about the chairman of the Council If the government will therefore not be political, Dina Boluarte must therefore find independent politicians, withdrawn from political life and above all experienced. The first media rumors refer to the appointment of Jorge Nieto as President of the Council of Ministers, an experienced minister from the time of the presidency of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski..
While the Minister is experienced, he is nevertheless not independent, but with a brand new centrally located party called the Party of Good Government (PBG) which does not yet have representation in Congress, which could only slightly annoy the groups in parliament.
The other two rumors mentioned would be the appointment of Alberto Otárola, former Minister of Defense during the era of the presidency of Ollanta Humala, or the current mediator of Peru Walter Gutiérrez..
Announcement and composition On 9 December, President Dina Boluarte announces that the composition of her government will be finalized in the evening, and announced on Saturday morning, 10 December, before noon..
Finally, the government investiture ceremony takes place at 1 p.m., and the president decides to appoint the lawyer Pedro Angulo. In the government, eight women are appointed, which is more than in all of Pedro Castillo's five governments, and the ministers belong or have belonged to a political party, but who have no parliamentary representation. The cabinet is therefore a technical government..
In addition, President Dina Boluarte has not yet decided on the Ministers of Labour and Transport, the portfolios that were most criticized and used for corruption in Castillo's government.
Changes in December 2022 On 13 December, three days after the formation of the government, President Dina Boluarte announces the appointment of the Ministers of Labour and Transport, Eduardo García and Paola Lazarte..
On 16 December, the sixth day of government, the two Ministers of Education and Culture Patricia Correa and Jair Pérez announced their resignation, in opposition to the outbreak of the state of emergency in the country and the numerous deaths during the demonstrations in favor of Pedro Castillo,. whose death toll worsened the same day, with 18 dead, confirmed by the Minister of Health Rosa Gutiérrez..
List of Angulo's ministers PortfolioMinisterTook officeLeft officePartyPresident of the Council of MinistersPedro Angulo Arana10 December 202221 December 2022IndependentMinistry of Foreign AffairsAna Gervasi10 December 202221 December 2022IndependentMinistry of DefenceAlberto Otárola10 December 202221 December 2022IndependentMinistry of Economy and FinanceAlex Contreras Miranda10 December 202221 December 2022IndependentMinistry of the InteriorCésar Cervantes Cárdenas10 December 202221 December 2022IndependentMinistry of Justice and Human RightsJosé Andrés Tello Alfaro10 December 202221 December 2022IndependentMinistry of EducationPatricia Correra Arangotia10 December 202221 December 2022IndependentMinistry of HealthRosa Gutiérrez Palomino10 December 202221 December 2022Peru FirstMinistry of Agriculture Development and IrrigationNelly Paredes del Castillo10 December 202221 December 2022IndependentMinistry of Labour and Promotion of EmploymentEduardo García Birimisa13 December 202221 December 2022IndependentMinistry of ProductionSandra Belaúnde Arnillas10 December 202221 December 2022IndependentMinistry of Foreign Trade and TourismLuis Fernando Elguero González10 December 202221 December 2022IndependentMinistry of Energy and MinesÓscar Vera Gargurevich10 December 202221 December 2022IndependentMinistry of Transportation and CommunicationsPaola Lazarte Castillo13 December 202221 December 2022IndependentMinistry of Housing, Construction and SanitationHania Pérez de Cuéllar Lubienska10 December 202221 December 2022IndependentMinister of Women and Vulnerable Populations Grecia Rojas Ortiz10 December 202221 December 2022IndependentMinistry of EnvironmentAlbina Ruiz Ríos10 December 202221 December 2022IndependentMinistry of CultureJair Pérez Bráñez10 December 202221 December 2022IndependentMinistry of Development and Social InclusionJulio Demartini Montes10 December 202221 December 2022Independent Otárola cabinet
On 21 December 2022, President Dina Boluarte conducted a reshuffle of her cabinet, appointing defence minister Alberto Otárola as prime minister. In addition to the prime minister, Boluarte appointed new Ministers of the Interior, Defense, Education, and Culture.
As a former defence minister, Alberto Otárola took a hard-line approach to protest movements and was accused of being behind the death of protestors during the Juliaca massacre. Otárola flatly rejected demands for Boluarte's resignation and repeatedly accusing former president Castillo of causing the ongoing political crisis.
Reshuffle of January 2023 On 12 January 2023, Eduardo García (Minister of Labour) submitted his resignation due to the deaths in the protests that resumed on 4 January 2023. Along the same lines, Grecia Rojas Ortiz (Minister of Women and Vulnerable Populations) would take the same position on 13 January 2023.
On that day, Boluarte swore in Luis Adrianzén and Nancy Tolentino as ministers of Labour and Women, respectively. Vicente Romero Fernández has been added to the Interior portfolio.
Resignation of the Minister of Education In September 2023, Magnet Márquez resigned from the position after opposing the approval of a bill to 14 thousand interim teachers, not counting pedagogical qualifications, in the appointment of the country's education system. Otárola denied that he was involved in the resignation.
Censure of the Minister of the Interior On 15 November 2023, the Minister of the Interior, Vicente Romero, was censured by Congress following the failure of the state of emergency and the so-called "Boluarte Plan."
Resignation of Alberto Otárola On 5 March 2024, Otarola resigned as prime minister after the television program Panorama released recordings of his alleged conversations with a 25-year old woman named Yazire Pinedo, who had landed two contracts with a total worth of $14,000 to do archive and administrative work for the government. One of the recordings was said to have shown Otarola referring to Pinedo as "my love". However, in his resignation statement, he denied allegations of wrongdoing. Pinedo said the leaked conversations dated back from before Otarola's premiership in 2021, but acknowledged that she had a brief "perhaps sentimental relationship" with him.
List of Otárola's ministers